"Daniel "Danny" Kass" is an American professional snowboarding/snowboarder who has competed at Olympic level.

Kass was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey/Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. He grew up in New Jersey where he began snowboarding at the age of twelve. His home slopes are what are now known as Hidden Valley (New Jersey)/Hidden Valley and Mountain Creek ski resorts both located in the mountains of Vernon Township, New Jersey/Vernon Township and Highland Lakes, New Jersey/Highland Lakes. After several years of shredding around the Mid-Atlantic States, Kass entered into the Okemo Mountain School to focus more of his time on riding some of the better pipe and park in the East. In 2001, Danny broke out into what has become one of the most successful contest streaks in snowboarding with four US Open Championships, seven Winter X Games medals and two Olympic silver medals.

During the winter of 2006, Kass fought his way back from a slow start in the US Grand Prix Circuit to qualify for the Olympics in Torino for the second time in a row. And just like in 2002, Kass took home another silver medal with back to back 1080s and his signature smooth style.

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We couldn't sell out. We're building this for ourselves.

There are normal people (in the sport) and crazy people. It's like chasing the storm. That's what's cool.

After how well things went in Salt Lake, everybody really wanted to get [to the Olympics] badly. So it pressed everybody to really lift their level.

It's about rhythm, practice, flow.

Sometimes, people just slaughter it, like Marcus.